Best Picture
Born on the Fourth of July	Dead Poets Society	Driving Miss Daisy	Field of Dreams	My Left Foot

Best Actor
Born on the Fourth of July	Dead Poets Society	Driving Miss Daisy	Henry V	My Left Foot
Tom Cruise	Robin Williams	Morgan Freeman	Kenneth Branagh	Daniel Day-Lewis

Best Actress
Camille Claudel	Driving Miss Daisy	The Fabulous Baker Boys	Music Box	Shirley Valentine
Isabelle Adjani	Jessica Tandy	Michelle Pfeiffer	Jessica Lange	Pauline Collins

Best Supporting Actor
Crimes and Misdemeanors	Do the Right Thing	Driving Miss Daisy	A Dry White Season	Glory
Martin Landau	Danny Aiello	Dan Aykroyd	Marlon Brando	Denzel Washington

Best Supporting Actress
Enemies: A Love Story	Enemies: A Love Story	My Left Foot	Parenthood	Steel Magnolias
Lena Olin	Anjelica Huston	Brenda Fricker	Dianne Wiest	Julia Roberts

Best Director
Born on the Fourth of July	Crimes and Misdemeanors	Dead Poets Society	Henry V	My Left Foot
Oliver Stone	Woody Allen	Peter Weir	Kenneth Branagh	Jim Sheridan

Best Original Screenplay
Crimes and Misdemeanors	Dead Poets Society	Do the Right Thing	sex, lies, and videotape	When Harry Met Sally…
Woody Allen	Tom Schulman	Spike Lee	Steven Soderbergh	Nora Ephron

Best Adapted Screenplay
Born on the Fourth of July	Driving Miss Daisy	Enemies: A Love Story	Field of Dreams	My Left Foot
Oliver Stone, Ron Kovic	Alfred Uhry	Roger L. Simon, Paul Mazursky	Phil Alden Robinson	Jim Sheridan, Shane Connaughton

Best Cinematography
The Abyss	Blaze	Born on the Fourth of July	The Fabulous Baker Boys	Glory
Mikael Salomon	Haskell Wexler	Robert Richardson	Michael Ballhaus	Freddie Francis

Best Art Direction
The Abyss	The Adventures of Baron Munchausen	Batman	Driving Miss Daisy	Glory
Leslie Dilley, Anne Kuljian	Dante Ferretti, Francesca Lo Schiavo	Anton Furst, Peter Young	Bruno Rubeo, Crispian Sallis	Norman Garwood, Garrett Lewis

Best Costume Design
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen	Driving Miss Daisy	Harlem Nights	Henry V	Valmont
Gabriella Pescucci	Elizabeth McBride	Joe I. Tompkins	Phyllis Dalton	Theodor Pistek

Best Sound
The Abyss	Black Rain	Born on the Fourth of July	Glory	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Don J. Bassman, Kevin F. Cleary, Richard Overton, Lee Orloff	Donald O. Mitchell, Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, Keith A. Wester	Michael Minkler, Gregory H. Watkins, Wylie Stateman, Tod A. Maitland	Donald O. Mitchell, Gregg Rudloff, Elliot Tyson, Russell Williams II	Ben Burtt, Gary Summers, Shawn Murphy, Tony Dawe

Best Editing
The Bear	Born on the Fourth of July	Driving Miss Daisy	The Fabulous Baker Boys	Glory
Noëlle Boisson	David Brenner, Joe Hutshing	Mark Warner	William Steinkamp	Steven Rosenblum

Best Sound Editing
Black Rain	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	Lethal Weapon 2
Milton C. Burrow, William L. Manger	Ben Burtt, Richard Hymns	Robert G. Henderson, Alan Robert Murray

Best Visual Effects
The Abyss	The Adventures of Baron Munchausen	Back to the Future Part II
Hoyt Yeatman, Dennis Muren, John Bruno, Dennis Skotak	Richard Conway, Kent Houston	Ken Ralston, Michael Lantieri, John Bell, Steve Gawley

Best Makeup
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen	Dad	Driving Miss Daisy
Maggie Weston, Fabrizio Sforza	Dick Smith, Ken Diaz, Greg Nelson	Manlio Rocchetti, Lynn Barber, Kevin Haney

Best Original Song
Chances Are	The Little Mermaid	The Little Mermaid	Parenthood	Shirley Valentine
After All	Kiss the Girl	Under the Sea	I Love to See You Smile	The Girl Who Used to Be Me

Best Original Score
Born on the Fourth of July	The Fabulous Baker Boys	Field of Dreams	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	The Little Mermaid
John Williams	Dave Grusin	James Horner	John Williams	Alan Menken